There are 20 UNESCO Chairs in Poland and the Baltics

An online workshop for UNESCO Chairs from the Baltic countries and Poland was held on January 23. Representatives of the National Commissions for UNESCO from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland were also present.

The aim of the meeting was to reflect on the joint contribution of the Chairs and the National Commissions to UNESCO priorities and programme. It was an important occasion to share experiences and perspectives.

The Chairholder, Professor Kristin Kuutma spoke on behalf of the UNESCO Chair on Applied Studies of Intangible Cultural Heritage (University of Tartu).

In general, the participants stated that the UNESCO Chairs continue to bring a wealth of knowledge and expertise to UNESCO programmes. They also forge an important and necessary link between members of the academic community and the values and priorities of UNESCO.

We are looking forward to future cooperation within this regional network. There are also two other chairs that directly deal with intangible cultural heritage: in Riga (Latvia) and Warsaw (Poland).

Learn more about UNESCO's university cooperation programme here.

In all, there are 15 UNESCO Chairs in the Baltic States and Poland:

Estonia

• UNESCO Chair of Cultural Heritage Studies, Estonian Academy of Arts
• UNESCO Chair on Applied Studies of Intangible Cultural Heritage, University of Tartu | homepage

Latvia

• UNESCO Chair on Intangible Cultural Heritage Policy and Law, Latvian Academy of Culture | homepage
• UNESCO Chair on Media and Information Literacy and Science Literacy, Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences
• UNESCO Chair on Biosphere and Man, Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences | homepage
• UNESCO Chair on Teacher Education and Continuing Education: Interplay of Tradition and Innovation in Education for Sustainable Development, Daugavpils University | homepage
• UNESCO Chair on Media and Information Literacy, University of Latvia
  
  

Lithuania

• UNESCO Chair on Media and Information Literacy for Inclusive Knowledge Societies, Vytautas Magnus University | homepage
• UNESCO Chair on Artificial Intelligence, Emerging Technologies and Innovations for Society, Mykolas Romeris University
   

Poland

• UNESCO Chair on Cultural Property Law, University of Opole
• UNESCO Chair for Heritage and Urban Studies, Kraków University of Economics | homepage
• UNESCO Chair on Intangible Heritage in Global and Public Governance, University of Warsaw
• UNESCO Chair on Ecohydrology and Applied Ecology, University of Lodz | homepage
• UNESCO Chair in Institutional Research and Higher Education Policy, University of Poznan
• UNESCO Chair for Social Sustainability, University of Szczecin | homepage
• UNESCO Janusz Korczak Chair in Social Pedagogy, Maria Grzegorzewska University | homepage
• UNESCO Chair for Science, Technology, and Engineering Education, AGH University of Krakow | homepage
• Chaire UNESCO en orientation tout au long de la vie, Université de Wroclaw
• UNESCO Chair in Women, Society and Development, University of Warsaw
• UNESCO Chair on sustainable development, University of Warsaw